Sunday 10 April 2011

Gillick vs Judd

I just missed Liam Gillick's mid-career retrospective Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario when I visited Rotterdam's Witte de With in 2008.  So when I learnt that the exhibition was travelling to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009, I decided that I must go to Chicago for a weekend.  Gillick's bright-coloured architectural structures dominated the show.  It was my first time seeing his works in real life.  My weekend was well spent.




If I were to curate a show, I would let Gillick's works converse with the great Donald Judd's.  Judd at K20, Duesseldorf 2010: